Peter Kersten, and his main production and DJing alias, Lawrence, have become very heavily associated with the deep, aquatic house since the turn of the millennium.
But less widely known than his house and ambient work as Lawrence and as a co-founder of legendary German label Dial, is his production work as Sten. Having not been released as Sten since 2008, Kersten makes a powerful comeback with “Earthshine” - a 12-track LP on Sushitech.

Most of the album is dance-floor oriented, with some more laid-back bits. One of the tracks that will surely make many club appearances over the next few months is 'Freewalk', a piece revolving around its trance-influenced stabs.  It features Lawrence’s signature percussive work and punchy kicks, and we are honored to premiere it today.

Take a listen and try to resist the urge to nod your head along or fidget with your feet. Sten is back. Nature is healing.

write up by: https://soundcloud.com/sabro96

https://soundcloud.com/lawrence_dial
https://soundcloud.com/sushitech

https://www.instagram.com/lawrence_dial
https://www.instagram.com/sushitech_records

www.itsdelayed.com
www.instagram.com/_itsdelayed_
www.facebook.com/itsdelayed

Earthshine

PREMIERE: Sten - Freewalk [Sushitech Records]

Smallville 58 
Amir Alexander - Love Notes To Brooklyn

In loving memory of Nathaniel Jay

Smallville 58 - Amir Alexander - Love Notes To Brooklyn

Lb Honne - Majki B (Orion Remix)

Hailing from Plock, Poland - Zeu5 releases the 2 track EP “Dream” on Interlude London.

Both tracks share similar characteristics, smooth, groove driven and straight to the 4/4. Subtle percussive quirks, intertwining alongside colourful 909 drum hits, ultimately leading to breakdowns where pianos meet melancholy vocal sweeps, resulting in a warm dance floor friendly approach.

INTERLUDE004

Zeu5 - Dream (EP)

Stream or Download:

Beatport: bit.ly/3DCOfd6
Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3DwF3Wr
Apple: https://apple.co/3zg9T44
Youtube: https://bit.ly/3fdJKMz

Links:

@djzeu5

Zeu5 - Late Night

It's been just over two weeks since the Anthroposcene came out. Delighted to share Moon Patrol's Act I Scene I (@gilleswasserman & @irina-kotik)

Bandcamp: 
https://lostinrec.bandcamp.com/album/anthroposcene

Moon Patrol - Act I Scene I

B1. Le Bouquet (Fuga Ronto Remix) (snippet)

In the Stream

Lycoriscoris - In the Stream

Buy/stream: https://kompakt.fm/releases/wild_ride

When John Tejada releases new music, it's always a good moment for pricking up your ears. Like hardly anyone else, Tejada is always able to reinvent himself without losing the high recognition value. His brand new 3-tracker "Wild Ride" shows him without a doubt in spring mood. Opener "Vereor" is a good-humored, razor-sharp tech-funker in classic Tejada style. "Wild Ride" and "Infinism" harken back to the sound of the formative Kompakt years, when artists like Dettinger, Jonas Bering and SCSI-9 defined a new minimal sound that was as elegant as it was emotional, and which feels surprisingly contemporary again in Kompakt's thirtieth year.

Wild Ride

Infinism

John Tejada - Infinism

Petar Dundov - Emma's Dilemma [Neumatik 003]
Stream: social.tunecore.com/linkShare?linkid=TYlrgaHh-8cdy5E-eD8czQ
Buy: petardundov.bandcamp.com/track/emmas-dilemma

Hot on the heels of his adventurous and absorbing album In Expectation of Dawn, Croatian techno pioneer Petar Dundov is back with another spellbinding new track, Emma's Dilemma on his label Neumatik Records. 

Dundov has been shaping the underground with his own artful, synth laden take on techno for over two decades. Whether crafting long players or more club focussed 12"s, he has a meticulous sound that moves you physically as well as emotionally. 

This majestic new single is a deeply absorbing house groove with dancing percussion and organic sound designs. A gorgeous angelic voice repeats the title's refrain amongst steamy and tropical grooves that are designed to soothe the soul and elevate your mind. It's a perfect track with a hint of Afro rhythm and spirituality for sunny outdoor dancing and shows yet another side to the Dundov sound. 

Emma's Dilemma is another superb production from the one and only Petar Dundov.

Connect:
@petardundov
www.petardundov.com
facebook.com/dundov
instagram.com/petardundov
twitter.com/petardundov
@neumatik

Petar Dundov - Emma's Dilemma

Asking to attentively look into the blurry picture, the creators report something meaningful in the language of dub-techno. It is impossible to say exactly what all of the glitches, muffled fog loops, light noise and voice samples contain. Perhaps this is a tribute to the good old Detroit together with the longing for the departed, or maybe it is the personification of a new reality with its social indecision and fragmentation. This knowledge seems to flow in the fibres of the subconscious, picking out the answer inside the listener. Despite the noticeable anxiety of the ambient background, the threadlike pulse of life is performed by the warm chords, expressing hope for a better future.

@deepchord
@linval-thompson
@avantrootsrecords

Linval Thompson Meets Avantroots

Premiere: Deepchord – World Crisis ft. Linval Thompson [AR055]

RAWAX proudly welcomes MOVE D to the family!
We are very honored to present you the legend from Heidelberg
on the sixt edition of our RX Series!
Highly recommended!

Pre-order: https://bit.ly/3oEVbB8

Artist: Move D
Title: Circle To The Square
Label: RAWAX
Format: 12"
Cat: RX6
Genre: Deep/ Techno/ Detroit/ House
Rel. date: 03.07.2023
Tracklisting:
A1. Circle To The Square
A2. Sweet Heini (Feat. Bouillabass)
B1. Drone (2023 Version)
B2. Ripples

w+P by David Moufang

Worldwide exclusive distributed by www.dbh-music.com

RX6 - MOVE D - CIRCLE TO THE SQUARE (RAWAX)

Preorder now on Juno: https://www.juno.co.uk/products/coyote-special-editions-vol-2/932199-01/ 

It is time to succumb to the sounds of the Magic Wand label once more and this eighth sonic spell is another one that will leave you happily helpless. It finds the Coyote lads step away from their fine work on Is It Balearic? to cook up two top edits. First up they offer 'Lonely' - a broody, steamy and shimmering tropical Balearic workout and then comes the organic and lazy drums of 'Western Revolution' with an iconic gravelly vocal.

More from the label: https://www.juno.co.uk/labels/Magic+Wand/

PREORDER

PREMIERE: Coyote – Lonely [Magic Wand]

➤ RELEASE INFOS :
@alicia-hush & @ultra-k
Label : @cosmovisionrecords
Original concept by @elextravagante
Compiled by @elextravagante & @don-mescal
Full compilation will be released on 05/05/2023
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➤ About this VA:
100 years ago the world lived in chaos. Huge wars between humans, as well as great advances in technology that changed forever the face of the world, a world that according to many artists, lived as a prisoner of the rational mind and that did not allow us humans to understand life and the Universe in its wide spectrum.

This is how, with its mystical origin in Dadaism, Surrealism was born. A movement that sought to explore and venture into the limits of the human mind through art. Initially literature, but also reaching the visual arts and so much more. Then decades later, the first psychedelic artists were born, much closer to music in its origins and who represented a rebellion against the established norms in the face of a world in chaos.

Today after 100 years, the scenario is complex again. There are wars, there is a technological revolution and the world is coming out of a great chaos caused by a virus that produced a great crisis. Can we perhaps learn something from the ideas of surrealism, to understand today's world?, remove ourselves from the entirely rational mind to which technology and the "information society" push us, to finally understand the world from an alternative perspective?

Making this compilation was a leap into the void, a mixture of psychic automatism and cadavre exquis (exquisite corpse) that ended with a very free, authentic and very fresh result, with the wonder of the unexpected, including very purely electronic songs, with ideas of techno and even psy trance, like other more tropical ones with psychedelic cumbia, of course others more pop and the others, those that are usually there in our music, the ones totally trippy.

We hope you enjoy this great compilation full of freedom and unusual ideas, which will help you connect with another world through music, rhythm and love, thank you eternally!
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Download/Stream

Felicia Lush & Ultra K - In A While Crocodile

FUR:THER SESSIONS : PREMIERE 104

Artist: Geert
Track: Obscure Origin (Dycide Remix)
Album: Obscure Origin
Label: SONNTAG
Cat. No.: SNNTG002
Mastering: Spaventi Studio Amsterdam
Artwork: Studio Kern
Format: Vinyl & Digital
Genre: Deep Techno
Release date: 02/06/2023
Released by SONNTAG, Amsterdam
Distributed by Zwart Goud Amsterdam

Buy it here:
https://geert.bandcamp.com

Tracklist:
A1. Through the Woods
A2. Apparition
B1. Obscure Origin (Dycide remix)
B2. Obscure Origin

Geert:
https://soundcloud.com/iamgeert
https://instagram.com/ben_geert

Dycide:
https://soundcloud.com/dycide
https://instagram.com/dycide
https://facebook.com/dycide

SONNTAG:
https://soundcloud.com/sonntag_music
https://instagram.com/sonntag_music

Fur:ther Sessions:
https://soundcloud.com/furthersessions 
https://furthersessions.bandcamp.com
https://instagram.com/further_sessions 
https://formaviva.com/furthersessions 
https://facebook.com/furthersessions
YouTube: https://bit.ly/3irNAR4  

Contact and Premiere Requests:
furthersessions[at]gmail[dot]com

Buy it here

PREMIERE: Geert - Obscure Origin (Dycide Remix) [SONNTAG]

Motto Sono Records presents: (MOTTO34) Ride That Wave, feat George Rontiris, by Ica Rus who is back on Motto with his second EP featuring our in house vocalist George "G-Tech" Rontiris. As well as a small artist name change from the previous Icarus.

https://soundcloud.com/joelmull

Artwork by Katharina Schmidt
https://www.instagram.com/artist.katharinaschmidt

Ride That Wave (MOTTO34)

Ride That Wave Feat George Rontiris, by Ica Rus (MOTTO34)

Pentland Park present the 'Conscious' EP on Everything Will Be OK, with remixes from Lake People, Fort Romeau, Benjamin Fröhlich and Brigade. 

Featured: https://klubikon.com/2023/05/22/premiere-pentland-park-6am-again-brigade-ambient-house-remix 

'Conscious' EP will be available after the 26th of May https://lnk.to/conscious_ep 

KLUBIKON 
https://klubikon.com 
https://www.facebook.com/klubikon 
https://www.instagram.com/klubikon 
https://www.tiktok.com/@klubikon 
https://www.youtube.com/klubikon 
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Conscious

Featured

PREMIERE: Pentland Park - 6am Again (Brigade Ambient House Remix)

https://runningbackrecords.bandcamp.com/album/surprise

Big things have small beginnings. Playhouse 001 was such a emergence. Founded as a subsidiary to Klang Elektronik in 1995 by Heiko M/S/O and Ata to give their everlasting love for and influence of original US-American house music a home, a single-sided 12-inch pressed with two tracks and a simple pink label and no additional info was all that one could see or hear. Some copies featured a hand-written claim with silver marker that gave the catalogue number away, but not much else. Mystery triggers interest. One of the oldest parlor tricks in the music industry – and a working one. But you also have to have the content to back it up.

Holy Garage’s Surprise fulfills that demand. The spark that started the fire is a joint venture of Roman Flügel and Jörn-Elling Wuttke alias Acid Jesus with Heiko and Ata joining the recording session as vibe controllers. Taking place during a hot summer day in Wuttke’s grandparents’ garage (hence the name) in a small town between Frankfurt and Darmstadt, and only interrupted by trips to the local swimming-pool, the results still sound magical. In its main mix, Surprise is a classic early nineties house track that heavily nods towards the Big Apple, house music’s disco roots and the power of swinging drum programming, albeit with meticulous production work and engineering. In short, it sounded and sounds as un-German as Germans can. The Holy Bassline Mix on the other hand is already in the shape of things to come. Carried by a Roland TB-303, sprinkled with trance bits and elegiac pads, its in perfect balance.

Others thought so as well. Heavily supported by David Holmes and Andrew Weatherall, it was the manager of the latter who licensed it to Eye-Q Records UK with the addition of the Fake Jazz Mix and ordered remixes by freshmen Isoleé and Losoul who became pillars of Playhouse. The first known for his idiosyncratic and sculptural ways of creating dance music meets the irresistible funk of his peer and both add spice to the already great menu. Here you have the chance to listen and digest Surprise in all its glory and entirety for the first time. Carefully remastered and processed by Lopazz and packaged by Running Back. Remember the good times and get some more.

Liner notes by Gerd Janson

05 Holy Garage - Surprise (LoSoul Remix)

Buy: spclnch.bandcamp.com/album/space-exploration

PREMIERE // Rothchord - Space Exploration

Black Spuma - Giro D'Italia

Preorder now on Juno: https://www.juno.co.uk/products/faze-action-fantasy-vinyl/943029-01/

FAR aka Simon and Robin Lee's Faze Action Records serve up a special 7" featuring Faze Action's 'Fantasy' which sounds very much like a tune you might unearth in some dusty old crate that hasn't been heard since the 70s and 80s. It has lush synths reaching up to the stars and gentle disco beats that sweep you off your feet. The bustling arrangement bubbles with subtle energy and gorgeous vocals are layered in for extra escapist magic. On the flip is an instrumental that is pared back and more direct, but both tunes really do take you into a fantasy world.

More from the label: https://www.juno.co.uk/labels/FAR+%28Faze+Action%29/

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